In collaboration with the Ministry of Education in Myanmar, national and international volunteers, and the British Council on the ‘Towards Results in Education and English’ (TREE) programme, VSO harnesses a volunteer-led effort to improve Myanmar’s health and education systems…

AVENIR, a two-year project funded by the European Commission through its EU Aid Volunteers facility, has allowed France Volontaires and partners in Togo, Guinea and Senegal to deploy about 30 couples of volunteers (each made of 1 international and 1 national volunteer)…

The past year has brought unprecedented pressure on global efforts to not only prevent the spread of disease but also to provide adequate sanitation for people’s health, privacy, and safety…

Despite the challenges facing health care workers around the world in 2020, the Solomon Islands’ National Referral Hospital (NRH) celebrated the graduation of eleven doctors from its volunteer supported Bridging Internship Program…

Violet Mathenge is a medical doctor and epidemiologist, with more than seven years of experience in the clinical field, as well as in disease surveillance…

In Kenya, networks of youth volunteers are mobilising their peers on safe public health messages, using radio, peer networks, and social media to create awareness about the Covid-19 pandemic…

In the United Kingdom, over 750,000 people signed up to support the National Government’s Volunteer responders programme to support vulnerable people who are self-isolating…

Over the last 15 years through its Grow in Family program, United Way Chile has mobilized more than 11,000 volunteers from corporations committed to improving early education…

In Senegal, volunteers through a local partner of France Volontaires, le GREF supported the development of a training plan on early childhood learning which has been subsequently developed into a national plan and adopted across the country following a partnership with the national government...

The Youth Empowerment Transformation Trust in Zimbabwe and the Students and Academics International Assistance Fund in Norway ran an exchange for young people to strengthen academic freedom…

In Zimbabwe, Chikurubi Maximum Security prison is the largest prison averaging 2,600 inmates, many classified as high risk with long sentences, and 17% of the prison population is HIV positive and in need of HIV health services and peer support…

United Way believes everyone has the right to age in good health with dignity in their home and community…

Fifty UN Volunteer health experts were deployed in response to the coronavirus pandemic through a UN joint programme, implemented by UNDP, UN Women and UNICEF to support county healthcare systems and guarantee business continuity and services for poor and marginalized communities in Kenya…

In Belize, volunteers provided vital support to the operation of COVID-19 quarantine centres…

In Fiji, volunteers disseminated health information on COVID-19 to communities as part of the national disaster management system…

In Thailand, more than a million Village Health Volunteers collected daily health information on COVID-19 in rural communities…

In Lao People’s Democratic Republic, community radio volunteers reached people in rural and remote areas with COVID-19 prevention messages in their own languages…

n Jamaica, volunteers under the Ministry of Health and Wellness received training to address mental health needs in communities, playing a vital role in the COVID-19 pandemic response…

Pakistan established the Corona Relief Tiger Force national youth scheme to provide essential supplies to vulnerable groups to address the consequences of COVID-19 and mitigate its socioeconomic impacts…

Panama empowered volunteers from the Ministry of Social Development’s Voluntario Solidario programme to distribute millions of emergency “solidarity” packages to vulnerable families to address the consequences of COVID-19 and mitigate its socioeconomic impacts.